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Title: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: tony on March 27, 2002, 07:53:40 am

hi all,

i finally got averything running, sound included through a jpac.  using advmenu and advmame.

i'm currently using generic pc speakers and was wondering, how do i wire up my cab speakers to my sound card?  do i need an amp?

any sites that anyone knows of?

thanks

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: Zipper on March 27, 2002, 08:01:22 am

It's nice any easy.
Yes, you need an amplified signal.
Just buy a cheap pair of pc speakers (no more than

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: AlmtyBob on March 27, 2002, 08:26:53 am

Here's my solution with a j-pac.  Buy a cheap pair of speakers with a powered sub.  Labtec normally makes some decent cheap ones.  Now there are two ways to hook it up.  If you have volume pots in your cab already:
PC Line out -> volume pot -> powered sub -> jpac sound +/-.  You wont get stereo like that however.  The other way is to use the volume dial already in the speaker, just break it out.  If you want stereo, you'll have to wire directly to the speakers.  You shouldn't have to remove the cab's speakers with any of these solutions.

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: d8thstar on March 27, 2002, 01:27:36 pm

ACK!  volume pots in my cab?  please explain?

thanks all...

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: kamakazi on March 27, 2002, 08:26:33 pm

Quote

ACK!

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: tetsu96 on March 27, 2002, 11:34:06 pm

Sounds to me like if you're running generic PC speakers already (just make sure they're POWERED speakers), you can take a saw to them and pull the amp for powering the cab speakers.  takes just a few minutes and you've got the volume right off the AMP.

If you do that, the cab's pots (if it has any) won't be used anyhow.

Title: Re: Connecting cab speakers?
Post by: AlmtyBob on March 30, 2002, 09:23:19 pm

My suggestion about wiring directly to the pots is for purely cosmetic purposes (I'm anal like that).  If you have speakers with a volume control inside it's easy to just take out the volume control and mount it right by the coin door or some other accessible place.